A Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Body Sensor Networks


KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 127-134, Jun. 2016
10.3745/KTCCS.2016.5.6.127,   PDF Download:
Keywords: WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network), WBSN (Wireless Body Sensor Network), WSN (Wireless Sensor Network), Time Synchronization, Less Power
Abstract

WBSN (Wireless Body Sensor Network), also called WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) generally, is a kind of WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) applications, which is composed of the various sensor nodes residing in human body embodied or in wearable way. The measured data at each sensor node in WBSN requires being synchronized at sink node for exact analysis for status of human body, which is like WSN. Although many time synchronization protocols for WSN has been already developed, they are not appropriate to WBSN. In this paper, a new time synchronization protocol for WBSN considering the characteristics of WBSN is proposed. The proposed scheme is not only simple, but also consumes less power, leading to increasing network life time. We will show that the proposed scheme is appropriate to WBSN by evaluating its performance by simulation.


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[IEEE Style]
S. Bae, "A Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Body Sensor Networks," KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 127-134, 2016. DOI: 10.3745/KTCCS.2016.5.6.127.

[ACM Style]
Shi-Kyu Bae. 2016. A Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Body Sensor Networks. KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems, 5, 6, (2016), 127-134. DOI: 10.3745/KTCCS.2016.5.6.127.